Q 01/05

Under which barnyard name was candy corn originally sold, long before it became a Halloween staple?

A) Horse Teeth

B) Chicken Feed

C) Turkey Scratch

D) Goose Grain

Answer · why

B) Chicken Feed

Chicken Feed was no passing joke: Goelitz packaging from the 1920s still showed a rooster scratching among the kernels.

Q 02/05

In which Alfred Hitchcock film did the lead actor improvise his character's habit of eating candy corn?

A) Vertigo

B) Rear Window

C) Psycho

D) The Birds

Answer · why

C) Psycho

Psycho star Anthony Perkins came up with the snacking himself for motel keeper Norman Bates.

Q 03/05

According to a National Confectioners Association survey, what is the most common way to eat a candy corn kernel?

A) Wide end first

B) One stripe at a time

C) Narrow end first

D) Whole piece at once

Answer · why

D) Whole piece at once

Eating the whole piece at once was the choice of 52 percent of people asked, while nearly a third said they nibble the narrow tip first.

Q 04/05

Candy corn is built up in separate color passes: which color is poured into the mold first?

A) White

B) Orange

C) Yellow

D) Brown

Answer · why

A) White

White candy for the pointed tip goes in first, followed by the orange middle and finally the yellow base.

Q 05/05

Which insect-made resin, listed on labels as confectioner's glaze, gives candy corn kernels their shine?

A) Rosin

B) Shellac

C) Amber

D) Lacquer

Answer · why

B) Shellac

Shellac is secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand, and it is also used to finish wood.